# Replacement for project\_data\_dir

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacement-for-project-data-dir/35210>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [May 21, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacement-for-project-data-dir/35210 "2021-05-21T17:14:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paul2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Paul2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul2)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacement-for-project-data-dir/35210/1 "2021-05-21T17:14:57Z")

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I have a question about a potential contribution that I would like to make to the project. Currently, my organization is running AWX 19.1.0 images from [http://quay.io/ansible/awx:19.1.0](http://quay.io/ansible/awx:19.1.0) on Docker. In previous versions, we used the project\_data\_dir setting in the inventory file in order to allow copying files to the remote hosts in our playbooks. With the latest versions, I have created this directory within the docker container and hard coded the directory by adding this parameter to every call to ansible\_runner.interface.run in awx/main/tasks.py: container\_volume\_mounts=[“/foo:/foo”]

I don’t want to spend too much time making this pretty if it will be rejected by the admins. Is this type of change worth cleaning up and submitting, or should I plan on making the update manually every time we update to a new version? Or better yet, is there already a solution for pulling files from the local AWX filesystem that I have overlooked?